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My Advice about How to Plan Book Writing

I’m quoted in an article entitled “How to Plan Book Writing” by Mason Reed that was posted on Mind Globe, a British website, on October 20, 2016. Here is the link: http://mind-globe.com/plan-book-writing/  

I taught creative writing, composition, literature, linguistics, and women’s studies courses at eight colleges and universities.  I developed these ideas to explain to my students how to organize and develop their writing.  This advice is based on my own experiences as a published writer of six books.

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).